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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 25, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-replace-html-and-fade-with-rjs/154091 "2008-11-25T09:48:47Z")\
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**Author:**  [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-replace-html-and-fade-with-rjs/154091/1 "2008-11-25T09:48:47Z")
I have run into a problem using replace\_html and fade together to
display an error message. The error message is displayed when a user
enters the wrong username or password and then fades away. The
problem is that if a user enters incorrectly again, the error is not
displayed again. I need someway of resetting the html element so that
I can replace it again. Here is the relevant code:
format.js do
render :update do |page|
page.form.reset ‘login\_form’
page.visual\_effect(:fade, “login\_error”, :duration =\> 2)
page.replace\_html ‘login\_error’, “Username and password do not
match.”
end
end
any ideas?
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**Author:**  [@david](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 10:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-replace-html-and-fade-with-rjs/154091/2 "2008-11-25T10:31:35Z")
On 25 Nov 2008, at 08:47, David wrote:
> I have run into a problem using replace\_html and fade together to
> display an error message. The error message is displayed when a user
> enters the wrong username or password and then fades away. The
> problem is that if a user enters incorrectly again, the error is not
> displayed again. I need someway of resetting the html element so that
> I can replace it again. Here is the relevant code:
fading eventually marks the corresponding dom element as invisible.
You’ll need to show it again (page.show etc…)
Fred